The Science of Sadness
An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these fa...
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| description | An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts to resolve long-standing problems that have stymied modern emotion research. A careful examination of sadness-related behaviors reveals their biological and social functions, which Huron uses to formulate a new theory about how emotions in general are displayed and interpreted.We've all shed tears of joy, tears of grief, tears of pain. While different emotions often share the same weepy display, Huron identifies the single function that unites them. He suggests how weeping emerged over the course of human evolution, explores the contrasting cultural manifestations of sadness, and chronicles humanity's changing interpretations of sadness over time. Huron also explains the various ways cultures recruit and reshape involuntary emotional displays for different social purposes, and he offers a compelling narrative of what makes tragic arts so appealing. Though sadness is typically regarded as the very antithesis of happiness, The Science of Sadness draws attention to the important roles that grief, melancholy, and nostalgia play in human well-being. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1467452024-10-25T13:19:21Z The Science of Sadness Huron, David emotion sadness grief melancholy nostalgia crying weeping tragedy science evolutionary psychology ethology psychology biology sociobiology history of emotion psychiatry medicine therapy signaling theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMQ Psychology: emotions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts to resolve long-standing problems that have stymied modern emotion research. A careful examination of sadness-related behaviors reveals their biological and social functions, which Huron uses to formulate a new theory about how emotions in general are displayed and interpreted.We've all shed tears of joy, tears of grief, tears of pain. While different emotions often share the same weepy display, Huron identifies the single function that unites them. He suggests how weeping emerged over the course of human evolution, explores the contrasting cultural manifestations of sadness, and chronicles humanity's changing interpretations of sadness over time. Huron also explains the various ways cultures recruit and reshape involuntary emotional displays for different social purposes, and he offers a compelling narrative of what makes tragic arts so appealing. Though sadness is typically regarded as the very antithesis of happiness, The Science of Sadness draws attention to the important roles that grief, melancholy, and nostalgia play in human well-being. 2024-10-25T13:19:19Z 2024-10-25T13:19:19Z 2024 book ONIX_20241025_9780262378314_123 9780262378314 9780262547772 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146745 eng The MIT Press image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15262.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/15262.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/15262.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262378314 9780262547772 The MIT Press 408 Cambridge open access |
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